This study uses household survey data from 58 countries around the world to compare the labour market outcomes of rural and urban workers, taking into account the specific socio-demographic characteristics
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has adversely affected harvesting of Rabi crop in the Gangetic belt as labourers are busy digging ponds, leaving farmers high and dry. In some places the labourers have even jacked up their rates, saying they will work in fields only if they get more than Rs 100 per day as wage.
Minister for Panchayats and Rural Development and Social Justice Gopal Bhargava said that Rs 625 crore has been allocated to 26 districts of the State for providing employment. He said that so far, savings accounts of over 66 lakh job card holders have been opened in banks and post offices.
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government utilised 96 per cent of funds under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in 2009-10, creating 551.59 lakh mandays.
LUCKNOW: The delay by the Central and state groundwater boards in releasing the 2008 groundwater assessment report might dislodge the huge efforts made by the state groundwater department and crores of rupees being pumped in by the government to replenish the fast depleting groundwater reservoirs in UP.
The State Government will rope in Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to review MNREGS works. The ISRO will assist the government by providing satellite drawn high quality pictures of work sites. The government had held preliminary round talks with the space institute.
Even States that claim to have impressive economic growth report severe under-nutrition and high infant mortality, particularly among their tribal populations. At an anganwadi centre in Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. STATE OF DENIAL
Taking serious note of the observation of experts Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has mooted several urgent steps to restructure and improve the work ratio under National Rural Employment Generation Scheme. The NREG expert and professor of economics Jean Dreze during his recent visit to the State had placed Bihar as one of the worst performing States in the country.
Fertility of 17.14 lakh hectares has been improved and more than 65 lakh fruit saplings planted in Madhya Pradesh as part of the Nandan Falodyan Sub-Scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. ''The planting has been undertaken over 23,578 hectares,'' Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava said today on the occasion of the Earth Day.
Hyderabad, April 21: Admitting the presence of middlemen and contractors in the prestigious National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGS), the rural development ministry announced that it would appoint ombudsmen in every district who would be entrusted with the responsibility of examining all complaints of irregularities pointed out by the social audit and passing
V. K. Ramachandran, Y. Usami and Biplab Sarkar To perpetuate a system that assigns a household to a single BPL/APL category in circumstances in which poverty is multi-dimensional is not only bad economics, but unconscionable as well.
